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Question
Explain the following statement with reason.
The campaign for pulse polio immunisation was taken up.
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Solution
- The rate of infant mortality in India was very high before 1978, every year, six Indian infants out of every 10 who were born faced fatal health problems in the very first year of their birth.
- The immunisation programme was taken up to overcome the threat of polio, measles, tetanus, TB, diphtheria, and whooping cough.
- The ‘pulse polio’ immunisation programme started in 1995 has controlled polio.
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